A primitive weapon consisting of a metal tube, closed at one end. Gunpowder would be loaded into the tube, then a metal cannonball. Igniting the explosive would hurl the ball at the target, inflicting damage via kinetic energy. Q recreated a cannon as part of an illusory world in 2364.2

A projectile weapon used in Earth's 20th and 21st centuries. The Iotians produced copies of the weapon after cultural contamination form an Earth book9 Voyager's crew also used them in a World War II hologram in 2374.10 Captain Archer encountered M1911 pistols in an alternate timeline version of 1940s Earth.11

Portable hand cannon made by the Breen and designed to destroy moving vessels and surface emplacements. It could cut through reactive armour up to 15 cm thick and penetrate shields up to 4.6 GigaJoules in strength.17